Critics have recently all been on the same wavelength when it comes to The Player. It is being described as an action packed hour, that verges on the extremes. Its original plot of solving crimes before they happen, is a very attractive quality in a show after all of the crime shows on television who solve after the fact. The Player is putting a new twist on an “oldie but a goodie,” and is one of the closest things to a straight-out action series that NBC has had in quite some time.
The environment of the show is said to be “absolutely unbelieveable,” but an exciting performance by a powerful Snipes and the physical prowess of Winchester seem to balance out that fact. However, with it’s intensity verging on unrealistic, and it going up against favorites such as ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder and CBS’s Elementary, the show has some definite obstacles to jump over.